'Beauty' proves a beast in sales, smashing box-office records
Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" shattered box office records in ... including the biggest debut ever for a PG title both domestically and in foreign markets, where it took $182.3 million. It passed the $166 million domestic opening weekend of last year's ...

How'd That Homophobic 'Beauty and the Beast' Boycott Work Out?
sixth-largest Sunday gross and eighth-largest theater average for a wide opening release. All that money flowed into theaters after nearly 52,000 people signed an American Family Radio petition reading, "I can't support Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast ...